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Thromboembolic events with concurrent low platelets. Up to 14th April 2021 the MHRA had received Yellow Card reports of 168 cases of major thromboembolic events (blood clots) with concurrent thrombocytopenia (low platelet counts) in the UK following vaccination with Covid-19 vaccine AstraZeneca. These events occurred in 93 women and 75 men aged from 18 to 93 years and the overall case fatality rate was 19% with 32 deaths. The estimated number of first doses of Covid-19 vaccine AstraZeneca administered in the UK by 14th April was 21.2 million giving an overall case incidence of 7.9 per million doses. The data...

I signed up when it was first possible to do so by sending in my phone number. I've been waiting for them to allow us to create our profiles. Now, I am getting blocked from the site with a 1020 error message saying ACCESS DENIED: This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The only thing I can think of is that I let the site stay up for 24 hours on my computer playing in the background. Perhaps they think I was trying to cause a Denial of Service attack? Anyone else having this...

In his first address to a joint session of Congress, President Joe Biden declared that "white supremacists have replaced jihadists as the most lethal terrorist threat to the United States. As we saw on January 6, white supremacists launched the gravest attack on this country since the Civil War. I am asking Congress to join with me in spending $6 trillion to strengthen the country's economy as our first line of defense against these terrorists." Many observers wondered how a disorganized unarmed group that milled about the Capitol for a few hours on January 6th, committed a few acts of...

Three Loveland, Colorado, police officers who were involved in the arrest of Karen Garner, the 73-year-old woman with dementia who suffered injuries while she was being detained last summer, have resigned from the department, according to officials. Now-former officers Austin Hopp, Daria Jalali, and community service officer Tyler Blackett are "no longer employed with the Loveland Police Department," Chief Robert Ticer said in a press conference Friday, The Coloradan in Fort Collins reported. Ticer would not specify if the three had resigned or if they were fired, but a department spokesman later said they quit.

Justice Was Mis-Served! The Derek Chauvin verdict will obviously be appealed. PRINT LISTEN I believe that Derek Chauvin was guilty of manslaughter, but not murder. The man is obviously a bully, but if he had wanted to kill George Floyd, it wouldn’t have taken him nearly nine minutes to do it. I suspect he kept his knee on Floyd’s neck because he didn’t like his attitude. After all, lying face down with his hands cuffed behind him, Floyd wasn’t going anywhere. On the other hand, there was no way for the cop to know that the perp had a huge...

Facing a defamation lawsuit, conservative television outlet Newsmax on Friday apologized to Dominion Voting Systems security director Eric Coomer and backed off claims that he manipulated voting machines and counts to thwart the re-election of President Donald Trump. "Newsmax has found no evidence that Dr. Coomer interfered with Dominion voting machines or voting software in any way, nor that Dr. Coomer ever claimed to have done so," it said in a statement. "Nor has Newsmax found any evidence that Dr. Coomer ever participated in any conversation with members of 'Antifa,' nor that he was directly involved with any partisan political...

A Northern California chapter of Antifa got their plans foiled by a loyal supporter of President Trump. On Thursday, the Trump supporter revealed documents, messages and recordings he accessed by infiltrating a far-left Antifa group in Sonoma County. The leader of the Antifa chapter is said to be a 25-year-old college student who was arrested in 2020 for assaulting a police officer. Furthermore, another member made shocking comments when discussing a potential Saturday, May 1 “May day” protest. “It’s May day baby, it’s May day,” the leader, dubbed Marb, said during a meeting. “Come out and take something over with...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) led 38 other Republican senators in a letter Thursday to U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, calling upon him to withdraw the New York Times’ “1619 Project” from taxpayer-funded grant programs. McConnell wrote that he and the other senators “express grave concern with the Department’s effort to reorient the bipartisan American History and Civics Education programs … away from their intended purposes toward a politicized and divisive agenda.” The Republican leader observed that a recent survey found only 51 percent of Americans can name the three branches of federal government, while only 15 percent of...

Feel bad for hockey fans in the Seattle area. You want to enjoy a game not get lectured about how you should live or get leftist propaganda. With Seattle’s Climate Pledge Arena set to open this fall, it kicked off a new series this last week designed to explain its plans to become the world’s first net zero carbon certified arena. “We’re innovating to dramatically reduce our carbon emissions, and investing in nature based solutions to make up for any emissions we can’t eliminate,” the arena said in a two-minute video posted to Twitter. MAY 1, 2021 AT 7:49 AM...

To gin up class warfare, Biden said during his speech to the nation this past week that the average wage of CEOs is 300 times that of American workers. That is a blatant lie. There are an estimated 195,530 CEOs in the U.S., and according to the Bureau of Labor, their median salary is $185,950, or 3.5 times the median wage of an average worker who makes $25.50 per hour. The CEOs make around as much as the 535 members of Congress, and members of Congress get much higher pension benefits and a lot more time off. The median annual...

There are bigger names in the South Florida pizza industry, and there are certainly smaller ma’ and pa’ pizza joints along Bird Road, US-1, Alton Road — you name it. However, there’s one unsuspecting pizza spot, whose roots come straight from Caserta, Italy, that you might have missed. It’s Mister O1 Extraordinary Pizza, and it has been named the “Best Pizza in Florida” by Food & Wine.

Chicago has seen a significant increase in shootings and homicides so far this year, compared with the first four months of 2020, police said Saturday. […] So far this year, 997 people have been shot, compared with 718 last year. The city has had 87 homicides — 31 more than during the same period last year. However, police did report some encouraging news about carjackings. According to the department, since adding 40 officers and four sergeants to a task force in early January, the number of reports of vehicular hijackings has dropped more than 55%. …

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A few years ago, a man told me this story. He was a retired professor. He had a healthy pension. His wife had died after a long illness. He had a troubled son, some of it drugs, lots of it due to blowing money. “You won’t believe this,” he said. “I’ve got money trouble.” He lived in Michigan. His son lived another state. Because of some decisions the professor had made when his son was young, he felt guilty about not “being there enough” for his son. The professor said he had paid for a couple of trips to rehabilitation...

A New Jersey high school teacher has been suspended with pay after profanity-laced comments to students in his class about George Floyd, the man killed by a Minneapolis police officer. A recording aired by WNBC-TV shows Dickinson High School (Jersey City) science teacher Howard Zlotkin talking about Floyd and Black Lives Matter during what was supposed to be a climate change discussion in a landscape and design Zoom class. Zlotkin, who is white, is heard to say people are “whining and crying about Black Lives Matter,” and he then refers to Floyd with a profanity as a “criminal” who “got...

Ken Bennett also dropped this bomb during the interview. The liberal media is attempting to dox the audit workers: "No. We haven’t confirmed any activity from those particular groups or anyone else. But, unfortunately, we’ve had the press and the media taking pictures of people’s license plates and trying to get closeups on their name badges and faces, of course. So it makes the workers and the observers a little bit nervous when the press is going to that length to try to identify somebody. They’re afraid they’re going to be doxxed or something like that. So we hope that...

If there's one thing Democrats—black Democrats in particular—can't stand, it's an African-American who dares to be a Republican or conservative. Over the years, we've seen the abuse—at times flagrantly racist in nature—heaped on Clarence Thomas and Condoleeza Rice. And MSNBC's Joy Reid outrageously ridiculed Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as "Uncle Clarence." Nowadays, Democrat abuse for such inexcusable apostasy is aimed largely at Republican Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina. On her MSNBC show Saturday morning, Tiffany Cross repeatedly tore into Scott, branding his response to President Biden's address to Congress, and in particular, Scott's comments on the Georgia election...

SNIP Newly released body camera video shows police talking to Mario Gonzalez in a park after receiving 911 calls that he appeared to be disoriented or drunk. He struggled to answer questions. "He seems like he's tweaking, but he's not doing anything wrong," a man told a 911 dispatcher, according to an audio recording released Tuesday. "He's just scaring my wife." The Gonzalez family and its attorney, Julia Sherwin, said his death is eerily similar to that of George Floyd, who died in Minneapolis police custody May 25. "These Alameda police officers killed Mario literally while the jury was debating...

VIDEOI've always wondered about the accuracy of sign language interpreters especially since a number of them have been revealed as not knowing what they are doing. In this video we have the opportunity to compare the TWO, count 'em TWO, sign language interpreters for Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. One of the sign interpreters is Whitmer's regular who is standing next to her. The other sign interpreter appears to be the one provided by Detroit channel 4 station WDIV-TV. Why they decided they needed an ADDITIONAL sign language interpreter is beyond me but this gives us the opportunity to observe two...

On this date in 1820 — which was not yet a red-letter day on the leftist calendar — five radicals were hanged at Newgate Prison for a plot to overthrow the government. A British government that had tilted from reactionary after the French Revolution to furiously repressive after defeating Napoleon was energetically at work stamping out the wide-ranging upheaval convulsing the isles. This day’s conspirators plotted to overturn the authoritarian rule of Lord Liverpool by murdering his ministers at a dinner party. Next steps: ???? Revolution! This excellent plot was hatched by none other than a government informant, who planted...